Systematic chemical nomenclature has always been corrupted - or enhanced, depending on your point of view - by the prevalence of eponyms. The fact that C60 was named buckminsterfullerene could be construed as (a) an erratic departure from the etiquette of attributing discoveries to individuals (b) trivial, or (c) the validation of an intuitive vision of a designer of geodesic domes. H.W. Kroto said that the newly discovered carbon cage molecule was named buckminsterfullerene "because the geodesic ideas associated with the constructs of Buckminster Fuller had been instrumental in arriving at a plausible structure." It is becoming, in Fuller's case, that he made no claim; the honor was bestowed by others.

Last week, University of Basel chemist John Maier and his colleagues published a paper in Nature solving a long-standing problem about the gaps between stars. Astronomers had long known that something was floating out there because of observations of light spectra, but no one knew what it was. Maier and his group finally solved the puzzle: the mystery substance is Buckminsterfullerene, a molecule of carbon consisting of 60 atoms named in honor of architect Buckminster Fuller, creator of the geodesic dome.

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (12 July 1895 – 1 July 1983) was a public speaker, author, mathematician and inventor. Fuller is best known as the popularizer of geodesic domes in architecture. He attempted to apply the most recent discoveries of science to the most basic of human needs such as shelter and transportation, without regard for precedent or profit or power, doing more with less. He called this process design science.

Fuller inspired both admiration and criticism during his life, and these have only grown since his passing. The publications of synchronofile.com are an independent resource on design science and Buckminster Fuller.

Buckminster Fuller was a world-renowned architect, math-obsessed designer, and affable weirdo. He died in 1983, but Fuller is still remembered fondly today for his geodesic domes and his three-wheeled cars. Despite extensive historical interest in the man, his FBI file has never been made public. Until now.

Inventor, architect, philosopher, poet, and global thinker—Richard Buckminster Fuller defies categories. The American visionary is considered to be one of the most important providers of impulses for contemporary architecture and an intellectual precursor of the organic movement. His work has also, however, inspired contemporary artists like Olafur Eliasson and Andrea Zittel. Achim Drucks on the pragmatic optimist, who is held in high esteem by the Pentagon and hippies alike.

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus will formally receive the 2015 IEEE Medal of Honor for her leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering. She is the first woman to receive the organisation’s highest honor since its inception in 1917. Dresselhaus is famous for her work in carbon-based materials including buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs), nanotubes and graphene. In the energy sector, carbon-based materials are frequently discussed in terms of their ability to increase energy storage capacities in battery technologies and supercapacitors. According to the IEEE, “the era of carbon electronics can be traced back to [Dresselhaus's] tireless research efforts.”

I’ve finished the manuscript for a children’s biography about Buckminster Fuller, and now I wait. The editors in New York City and beyond are chewing him over, deciding if today’s middle school kids will find “Bucky” — most famous for his geodesic domes – interesting, compelling, worth their time.

In 1962, Buckminster Fuller delivered a prophetic lecture at Southern Illinois University on the future of education aimed at “solving [educational] problems by design competence instead of by political reform.” It was eventually published as Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity — a prescient vision for online education decades before the web as we know it, and half a century before the golden age of MOOCs, with elements of TED and Pandora mixed in.

The theme of this year's Biennial Symposium on Design Science is "STEM to STEAM thru Synergy: Bridging Morphology, Biomimicry, Sustainability, and Synergetics." It will be hosted by Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island from January 31 to February 2, 2014.

Pointing to a burning log a child asked me "What is fire?" I answered "Fire is the Sun unwinding from the log. Earth revolves and impounds the Sun’s radiation. By photosynthesis the tree’s leaves convert the radiation into hydrocarbon molecules that form the tree’s outer layer. Each year the tree grows a new outer-layer which equal one year's Sun-energy impoundment. So fire is the many years of the Sun’s winding and unwinding from the tree that is letting go a very sunny day long ago."

Rice University scientists have discovered an environmentally friendly carbon-capture method that could be equally adept at drawing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial flue gases and natural gas wells.

The Rice lab of chemist Andrew Barron revealed in a proof-of-concept study that amine-rich compounds are highly effective at capturing the greenhouse gas when combined with carbon-60 molecules.

The research is the subject of an open-access paper today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.

Scientists have married two unconventional forms of carbon – one shaped like a soccer ball, the other a tiny diamond – to make a molecule that conducts electricity in only one direction. This tiny electronic component, known as a rectifier, could play a key role in shrinking chip components down to the size of molecules to enable faster, more powerful devices.

“I seem to be a verb,” he once said. Even more than 30 years after his passing, when the magnificent machine that was Buckminster Fuller’s mind stopped minting ideas and inventions at a prodigious rate, there's still a sense that he is always in motion, moving too fast for the rest of us. You can call Richard Buckminster Fuller many things: a prophet of environmentalism and the counter-culture, decades ahead of the fringe; a Doc Brown of design thinking, whose buoyant optimism held firm to the idea humanity can innovate out of its problems; or simply a self-made genius. But most just called the inspirational thinker “Bucky.”

R. Buckminister Fuller attributed much of his inventive genius to the fact that he was a generalist, striving to synergetically integrate ideas from many diverse disciplines into a harmonious whole that was not only novel, but efficient, beautiful, and environmentally friendly. He often wrote and lectured about the limitations of our present educational system. From his essay: "Education Automation," I learned that our present educational system is geared towards specialization, which often leaves the solution of society's most pressing problems to those least able to solve them. How this came to be is explored below.

Radical futurist, inventor, poet and lovable genius, Bucky will challenge you to rethink your life, the world and the role the individual can play in the fate of Spaceship Earth. A consummate doer, Bucky challenged the status quo with cutting edge ideas that inspired many of the early founders of Silicon Valley. What will he inspire in you?

Not seen in the Bay Area in more than 10 years, the San Francisco Chronicle called this one-man tour de force

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